Throwing out or keeping old magazines

[cloughie]

Three days to chuck 'em before 2014 starts - do it - you'll feel good!

...and more space for CDs?

[muzzer]

more space for books, mostly.....

[Ferretfancy]

The only way is to dispose of them very soon after you have read them thoroughly, if you leave it too long they never go. I used to have a collection of Gramophones from the late fifties until about about ten years ago. They weighed a ton, so I took a deep breath and got rid of them in the recycling and I've no regrets. If you keep a want list on the computer there's no difficulty.

[amateur51]

My barber in the 1960s used to have the Giles cartoon books and I loved them (as I still do). It was the only reason I liked going there!

If Giles were French, they'd be studying him at The Open University

Magical stuff

[Richard Tarleton]

My barber in the 1960s used to have the Giles cartoon books and I loved them (as I still do). It was the only reason I liked going there!

My, er, hairdresser, offers such metrosexual fare as GQ, Harpers and Marie Claire (it's a mixed salon), as well as a complimentary glass of wine

[gradus]

I had HiFi News and Gramophone from 1960 to c1998 mouldering in a room over the garage but found a purchaser who is now selling them on ebay. I gather that HFN in particular is of interest to those with vintage hi fi from the 'golden days' of the sixties to eighties, there being a substantial worldwide market in vintage hifi gear.

[Jonathan]

I used to hoard magazines - from when I was young I had loads of BBC Wildlife which I threw out a few years ago. I'm currently trying to sell lots of Astronomy Nows on eBay - complete years from 2008 - 2012 but there have yet to be any takers. Pondering throwing away all my editions of International Piano (Quarterly) which I unsubscribed to in 2011. It would give me more room for books...

[umslopogaas]

Like a previous poster, I had decades of Gramophone bundled up in the garage, but finally realised I NEVER looked back at them, so decided to advertise them in the small ads at the back of the magazine for seventeen quid: basically free, that was the cost of the ad. I didnt get a single taker, so they went into the recycle bin. I still subscribe, but now only keep two or three back issues. I really only use it as a source of recommended recordings, so once a month I trot off to the local CD shop with a list. The features are often interesting too. I dont share the derision felt in some quarters for the modern magazine: I really dont want a 1970s style Gramophone, however superior the reviews may (or may not) have been. The current crop of reviewers seem to me to be as knowledgeable as any of previous times, but the nature of their job has changed. They cant ponder in detail the pros and cons of every recording, in most cases there are now far too many, but if someone like Rob Cowan, whose knowledge of recordings must be practically bottomless, says a new recording is worth having, I'll take him at his word.

I do, however, concentrate these days on the unfamiliar. I think I have already commented recently that I'm getting old and I dont have time for yet another Beethoven symphony recording, however good it is.

[gamba]

Found my eye consultant was thinking of providing his son with a subscription to The Strad.

Gave him my collection. We were both quite delighted

[Old Grumpy]

Found my eye consultant was thinking of providing his son with a subscription to The Strad.

Gave him my collection. We were both quite delighted

Deleyeted - surely

[Old Grumpy]

The same applies to scientific journals accrued over the years. I still like receiving the print copy to read - it's not the same on screen. Anything you want from the past is on t' net.

I keep BBCMM until the end of the month to which it relates and then recycle it.

OG

[Serial_Apologist]

One stores interesting/enlightening stuff as a store of wisdom useful to anyone visiting/staying, if not to actual occupant. After all I have only one screen for more than one person to scan alongside/peering across me at a time, whereas books/papers/periodicals can be passed around. This is worth rememberring, I think. I've kept Melody Makers from the 1970s and The Wire and other jazz/experimental music mags from the 1980s to remind myself of what good reviewing/criticism amounted to as a standard to uphold; also guides to English Heritage/National Trust properties, cathedrals etc, and a lavishly illustrated series from maybe 15/20 years ago called The English Garden, as I'm unlikely ever to be re-visiting such places as have given me great pleasure in the past unless it's on some future oldies' charabanc outing.

[gradus]

I'd forgotten The English Garden and that I've got a few copies stashed somewhere - as you say lavishly illustrated.